"Meanwhile, hospitals all over the state are being filled up with “a record number of severely ill children with respiratory syncytial virus”… Capacity at pediatric hospitals across Michigan is strained as a record number of severely ill children with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, flood emergency rooms and fill hospital beds. “There is not a hospital in Michigan that takes care of pediatric patients that has not told us that they are feeling stress right now, immense stress,” Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Michigan’s chief medical executive, told the Free Press Thursday. Officials in Michigan have never seen anything like this before. In fact, one official is publicly admitting that her hospital is now “100% full” because the RSV outbreak in her local area has become so severe… “We have never seen a surge in pediatric respiratory viruses like this before,” said Luanne Thomas Ewald, chief operating officer at Mott and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, in a statement. “Our hospital is 100% full.”
